Hamilton v. Frette

The circuit court of Ford county, on the hearing of the issues formed under a petition in the nature of quo warranto exhibited in behalf of the appellees against the appellants, ruled that the proceedings taken and had for the purpose of organizing Union School District No. 8, in the counties of Ford and Champaign, were fatally defective; that said alleged district was without legal organization, and that the said appellants were without warrant of law to act as school directors of said district.

The said Union School District No. 8 contained many more than ten families, and was organized on a…